>And.............that would be?
Models, understood as provisional and incomplete re-presentations.
The hyphenation emphasizing the dynamic processes of sense-making by the researcher(s), leading both to new IntrA and ExtrA formations, called 'models' and the processes leading to them called 'modeling'.
Semeco is indeed self-referential, and provides a handle for understanding the limitations of the researchers in conducting their work. One may not be able to attend to all of the significant function circle interactions in a microgenetic episode, never mind something more comprehensive as an institution, or a community, especially if one wishes to understand the interweaving of interactions between, what is in common language, individuals and institutions. Mike's solution is what I take to be his mesogenetic proposal, with 'levels' being an explanatory construct, a model, that categorizes activity along different degrees of collectivity, spanning people, things, and time:
>I see the solution only in teamwork, in the creations of teams of
>people who can, collectively, more or less "surround" the study
>of developmental dynamics at at lest three analytic levels. I
>take Jay to be making this argument (see upcoming MCA).
(Fri, 18 Aug 2000 09:13:13 -0700 (PDT))
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